About 25 residents, water district, county and village officials gathered Wednesday at Town Hall and failed to agree on the path the Fuller Creek Sewer line will ultimately take from the Kishwaukee Street treatment plant in Rockford to the village.

The line is needed to replace the village's 60-year-old, inefficient wastewater treatment plant, which is on the state EPA's watch list.

Residents hoped to hear alternatives to the Kent Creek drainage way, low-lying land that Reclamation officials say is the most cost-effective way to deliver sewer.

However, the route crosses through the land of nearly 30 people, including Jack Rowley's 210 acres.

"It doesn't cut through the middle, but it cuts off about 50 acres," he said.

Winnebago County Board member Lynne Strathman said residents want the route to be installed along the Commonwealth Edison prairie path between Meridian and Westfield roads.

"We asked specifically for an analysis of the ComEd path," she said. "You'll be going through the edges of people's property, not the middle of it."

But Reclamation officials said at the meeting that going along the Kent Creek drainage way cost $4.95 million, while the ComEd path would cost $10 million.

Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen and Rock River Water Reclamation District Director Steve Graceffa and other officials agreed to meet in private before hosting another public meeting.